On returning, Mandala and China

well yes .. hello! hello! dear non-existent readers of this all (non-existentially) important blog.

we are now back on line. the connection has been restablished.

His holiness, Director, Center of the Weird Side has been engaging in great spiritual quests... this includes doing severe penances to propriate the Gods, reading the Mandala of Sherlock Holmes , eating some major carbs, thereby destroying his life, piece by piece. Badly addicted to porn and drugs, we have only now been able to rouse his Holiness from this haze of self destructive pleasure

Due to the above-mentioned reasons, between January to April, we have accomplished an amazing amount of nothing. If nothing was measurable, nay, the word i am looking for is quantifiable, being amenable to being bottled and sold, then we would have been nothing billionaires. We could have funded wars for world domination. It's a bit like this blog's non-existent importance. it's all nothing nothing. two negatives do not always make a positive.

during this time, many events of note have occurred.

In particular we attempted to try and find an argument to take China's side on the Tibet thing.

The fact of the matter is that Tibet is an integral part of China.

At least it was part of a China which respected the authority of the Dalai Lama and the seperate cultural ethnic identity of Tibet. When the Mainland was sort of destabilized circa 1930, Tibet then declared (quite opportunistically) independence. No country in the world accepted this declaration of independence and till today, no country does. And then the People
s Army of China re-established control. So technically, Tibet is part of China.

But the thing is.. 'technically'.

Given this historical perspective, it makes a tempting argument-a secular minded government looking to remove the tyranny of organized religion (the office of the Dalai Lama is almost identical to that of the Pope and we all know how much damage he wrecks) and which is already fast regaining a position of great power in the world. The Tibetans should march shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese.

The issue is however of cultural homogeneity. Of imposition of a cultural template which in this case is primarily Han Chinese. Such an imposition, despite all the fingers to Kashimir, India has assiduously ignored. If anything hindus have been at the receiving end.

The crux is this: which is preferable, oppression and corruption in a religious state and oppression and corruption in a communist state.

If the state is Buddhist, i'd choose the Dalia Lama over Mao any day.

So sorry, for all the atheism nonsense, China cannot engage in demographic warfare and earn the praise of our highly drug addled but still awesomely fantastic, Director.

Yes.. glad to get that out of the way.

More to follow. Watch this space.